Growing Local: the Naked Truth About Your Food. Film Series continues...

[Teresa]

Film Series coming up at Artisano in Ft Walton Beach - Dec 17

Growing Local Film Series

The Naked Truth About Your Food

Sponsored by Raw and Juicy and Twin Oaks Farm
Engaging our community about the food we eat.

Showings the last Tuesday of every month at the Repertory Theater in Seaside and the second Tuesday of the month at Artesano in Fort Walton Beach

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Tuesday, December 14th at Artesano in Fort Walton Beach
Eat Local: 5:30pm / Movie: 6:30pm

Artesano - 196 Miracle Strip Pkwy SE, Ft. Walton Beach 32548
(indoor location upstairs from Fokkers)

It's that time again, to gather together to enjoy locally grown food, and independent films about our food system. Meet us at Artesano in Fort Walton Beach for local food made by your friends and community, and to watch another film that helps us better understand how to feed ourselves and our families in the most healthful way. This months film is an inspiring and eye-opening documentary about 6 individuals who go on a raw food diet for 30 days and change their lives forever. Join us for great locally grown food and a film next Tuesday, if the weather is too cold we will be inside, upstairs from Fokkers. See you there! Simply Raw: Reversing Diabetes in 30 Days
Watch the trailer Simply Raw

Simply Raw: Reversing Diabetes in 30 Days is an independent documentary film that chronicles six Americans with diabetes who switch to a diet consisting entirely of vegan, organic, uncooked food in order to reverse disease without pharmaceutical medication. The six are challenged to give up meat, dairy, sugar, alcohol, nicotine, caffeine, soda, junk food, fast food, processed food, packaged food, and even cooked food for 30 days. The film follows each participant's remarkable journey and captures the medical, physical, and emotional transformations brought on by this radical diet and lifestyle change. We witness moments of struggle, support, and hope as what is revealed, with startling clarity, is that diet can reverse disease and change lives.


EAT LOCAL 5:30pm in the Artesano Courtyard
Artesano * 196 Miracle Strip Pkwy SE, Ft. Walton Beach 32548

Here's a reminder of our food guidelines:
The main portion of any dish should be from local or regional ingredients grown or harvested in Florida, Georgia, or Alabama. For example, zucchini bread should be made with zucchini that's as local as possible. But the flour, eggs, and other ingredients could be from anywhere, though if you can get them local--or organic-all the better. Any meat should be from organic or free-range animals. And yes, harvested can include wild plants, nuts, fish or game.

Remember, this is a POTLUCK - so, please bring a dish and serving utensils or beverage to share featuring local/regional foods. And bringing your own plates, silverware, and cups is a great way to cut down on un-needed waste. There will be some paper plates and plastic cups available.

Here is a list of local food's and places that carry local foods available in and around your area:

Gaia's Natural Foods
http://www.gaiasgarden-n-gallery.com

Seaside Farmer's Market!!
THIS (and every) SATURDAY 9am - 1:00pm
USDA Cert Organic chicken and duck eggs
Organic whole chicken
Grass Fed beef
Local milk, cream, butter
Local honey
persimmons
greens
sweet potatoes
bell peppers
Arugula
Napa Cabbage
Pak Choi
Komatsuma Asian Greens
Carrots

For The Health of It in Blue Mountain Beach 267-0558
radishes
corn
yellow squash
zucchini
Mushroms
pak choy
grape tomatoes
tangerines

Seaside Community Garden:
rosemary
mint
chives
thyme
oregano

Barefoot BBQ Seaside
Hilltop Sausage

Palafox Market, Downtown Pensacola
Palafox Market
Saturdays 8-2

Ever'man Natural Foods
315 W. Garden St
Pensacola
www.everman.org

Feel free to forward this to anyone who has the passion for eating locally...
And as always, we encourage you to walk, ride your bike, or carpool to the potluck!

For questions, or directions, please contact us at 850-687-3494


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[Matt J]

The parking is a nightmare there, carpool if you can.

 

[Teresa]

Film Series continues Tuesday Jan 25 at Seaside REP Theatre

Film series presented by Raw & Juicy and Twin Oaks Farm, last Tuesday of the month at 7pm at the Repertory Theater in Seaside.

Food Beware : The French Organic Revolution
Tuesday January 25, 2011
Seaside REP Theatre
Pot Luck Dinner at 5:30pm
Film at 6:30pm

For the first time ever, our children are growing up less healthy than we are. As the rate of cancer, infertility and other illnesses linked to environmental factors climbs ever upward each year, we must ask ourselves: why is this happening? Food Beware begins with a visit to a small village in France, where the town's mayor has decided to make the school lunch menu organic and locally grown. It then talks to a wide variety of people with differing perspectives to find common ground - children, parents, teachers, health care workers, farmers, elected officials, scientists, researchers and the victims of illnesses themselves. Revealed in these moving and often surprising conversations are the abuses of the food industry, the competing interests of agribusiness and public health, the challenges and rewards of safe food production, and the practical, sustainable solutions that we can all take part in. Food Beware is food for thought - and a blueprint for a growing revolution.

 

[scooterbug44]

Great movie - the small town of Barjac, France decided to do something about the skyrocketing levels of cancers (93% increase in the last 25 years - 70% clearly linked to food and environment) and the chemical contaminants in their food.

The scientific evidence is undisputed, the only thing necessary was political will.

The mayor simply decided that the school lunch program (which serves the local public and private schools and the town's meals on wheels program) would go organic and be locally grown and any additional costs would come from the municipal budget.

This is a much less "in your face" movie than many recent food/chemical films. While there are some more dramatic scenes (about kids dying of cancer, farmers affected by the chemicals they spray - one who typically couldn't pee for a week after applying), it is more of a relaxed story of how a town successfully adopted and promoted organic and local foods and the focus is on the school, the cute kids gardening and going on field trips, and town meetings interspersed with health forums.

Most of the parents/residents initially just went along with the new menus to humor the mayor, checking to make sure they didn't serve the same thing for dinner, and providing the same old nasty after school snacks, then slowing changing their habits as they learned more about it and decided it was the smart thing to do.

By the end of the year, the town had increased local demand for organic products and local businesses that carried those products expanded or increased.

The statistics presented are quite alarming - and it certainly highlights exactly why we all need to step up and demand sustainable farming and healthy food products instead of the current norm of chemical overload and environmental poisoning.

 

[Jdarg]

Thanks Scooty- I really wanted to see this but couldn't make it. Sounds like one to watch.

And thanks Jenifer Kuntz and Rene Savary for the Growing Local Film Series!

 

[scooterbug44]

Last night's film "Sweet Misery" was about aspartame - also known as Nutrasweet, Equal, Aminosweet.

All I can say is: DON'T EAT ANYTHING WITH THIS POISON IN IT!

Nasty, nasty stuff that was approved due to politics (with a starring role by Donald Rumsfeld) and over the STRONG objections of many scientists and reviewers.

This isn't a "we have concerns about this product and can't find a link" issue, it's a "here are the many damning studies, here are the decisions of the public inquiry board, here are the recommendations of the FDA panel, here is the study by the CDC, these are the charges that should have been brought by the US attorney against this company for faking their research" issue.

Some highlights:
"For 16 years, the FDA denied approval of aspartame because of compelling evidence of its contributing to brain tumors and other serious disabilities.

Donald Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense in the Bush Administration, left President Ford's administration as Chief of Staff to become the CEO of aspartame producer G D Searle Co. in 1981. Shortly after Rumsfeld became the CEO, and the day after President Reagan took office, aspartame was quickly approved by FDA Commissioner Arthur Hayes over the objections of the FDA's Public Board of Inquiry. Hayes had been recently appointed by the Reagan Administration. Shortly after aspartame's approval by the FDA, Hayes joined NutraSweet's public relations firm under a ten year contract at $1,000 a day.

Aspartame/NutraSweet was the product of the G. D. Searle Co. In January 1977, the FDA wrote a 33 page letter to U.S. Justice Department Attorney Sam Skinner: "We request that your office convene a Grand Jury investigation into apparent violations of the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act." Skinner allowed the Statute of Limitations to run.
Three FDA Commissioners and eight other officers and Skinner took jobs in the aspartame industry shortly after it was approved in 1982.

The Food and Drug Administration once listed 92 adverse reactions from 10,000 consumer complaints and sent the list to all inquirers. In 1996 the FDA stopped taking complaints and now denies existence of the report. Seizures, blindness, sexual dysfunction, obesity, testicular, mammary and brain tumors and death, plus dozens of other dread diseases named in the suit arise from the consumption of this neurotoxin."

In doing my own research, I have found that the statements made in the film are true - and that the companies now owning/distributing the product are using the same "spin" debunked in the film.

There are a lot of hoaxes, fraudulent information, and some misleading claims about aspartame, but at the end of the day, the data and studies (done by anyone not associated with the company selling it) all say it's horrible for you and the fact that it was approved and is still allowed to be used tells you a lot about priorities and influence in this country.

One of Wal-mart's subsidiaries in the UK thought it was too nasty to put in their product - talk about an acid test! (They won the first court case brought by the aspartame manufacturer, lost on appeal.)

Movie is a bit slow, and it's an older film w/ not so stellar production values, but the actual content is amazing - especially considering the faith many of us (mistakenly) put in the FDA and the CDC to protect us.

Sweet Misery ? A Poisoned World | Watch Free Documentary Online

 

[Teresa]

Film Series - Schedule

Growing Local, The Naked Truth about Your Food is a film series sponsored by Raw & Juicy and Twin Oaks Farm. Join us to learn what goes into the food we eat, how it is grown, how it reaches our table and how it affects our health and the environment.

The film series is free and open to the public.

Growing Local, The Naked Truth about Your Food
film series is presented the last Tuesday of the month at the Seaside Repertory Theater in Seaside and the second Tuesday of the month, in collaboration with Artesano Jewelry, At the Fountain square in downtown Fort Walton Beach.

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Tuesday, March 29, 2011
At the Repertory Theater in Seaside
Movie at 6:30pm
?Short Films?
Your Milk on Drugs ? Just Say No

April 12, 2011
At the Fountain Square in downtown Fort Walton Beach
Artesano Jewelry, 196 Miracel STrip Pkwy Unit G, FWB
Movie at 6:30pm
?Short Films?
?Your Milk on Drugs ? Just Say No?

Tuesday, April 26, 2011
At the Repertory Theater in Seaside
Movie at 6:30pm
"The Economics of Happyness?

May 10, 2011
At the Fountain Square in downtown Fort Walton Beach
Artesano Jewelry, 196 Miracel STrip Pkwy Unit G, FWB
Movie at 6:30pm
?The Economics of Happyness?

Tuesday, May 31, 2011
At the Repertory Theater in Seaside
Movie at 6:30pm
?A River of Waste?

June 14, 2011
At the Fountain Square in downtown Fort Walton Beach
Artesano Jewelry, 196 Miracel STrip Pkwy Unit G, FWB
Movie at 6:30pm
?Food Beware: The French Organic Revolution?

Tuesday, June 28, 2011
At the Repertory Theater in Seaside
Movie at 6:30pm
?GasHole?

July 12, 2011
At the Fountain Square in downtown Fort Walton Beach
Artesano Jewelry, 196 Miracel STrip Pkwy Unit G, FWB
Eat Local Pot Luck at 5:30pm
Movie at 6:30pm
?Sweet Misery, A Poisoned World?

Tuesday, July 26, 2011
At the Repertory Theater in Seaside
Movie at 6:30pm
?Dive? Living off American Waste

 

[Teresa]

Tuesday, March 29, 2011 at the Seaside REP

Tuesday, March 29, 2011
At the Repertory Theater in Seaside
Movie at 6:30pm


?Short Films?

Your Milk on Drugs ? Just Say No

Dairy products from cows injected with Monsanto's genetically engineered bovine growth hormone(rBGH or rBST) may sharply increase cancer risk and other diseases. Includes interviews with fired whistleblowers about manipulated research, the FDA, and political collusion, along with footage prepared for a FOX TV station - canceled after a letter from Monsanto's attorney threatened "dire consequences."

Film includes Introduction of the Campaign for Healthier Eating in America, which is a practical plan to achieve the tipping point of consumer rejection of GMOs in the US.

 

[Jdarg]

[FONT=&quot]Tonight- dinner and a movie! If you have never
attended an Eat Local dinner, they are lots of fun and the
food is absolutely incredible- you will wish there was a
restaurant open every day with this food! Here is the
email from Christin!
[/FONT][FONT=&quot][/FONT][FONT=&quot]EAT LOCAL[/FONT][FONT=&quot] 5PM * MOVIE 6:30PM[/FONT][FONT=&quot][/FONT][FONT=&quot]We will hang out outside the Rep Theater and eat yummy food from [/FONT][FONT=&quot]5:00-6:15ish[/FONT][FONT=&quot], then together clean up and and get ready for the movie which will start promptly at [/FONT][FONT=&quot]6:30pm.[/FONT][FONT=&quot] [/FONT][FONT=&quot][/FONT]Remember, this is a POTLUCK - so, please bring a food (with serving utensils) or beverage to share featuring local/regional foods.And it would be great if you could bring plates and cups for your own use, as well - though we will have some on-hand.
[FONT=&quot]
[/FONT][FONT=&quot]Here's a reminder on our food guidelines:

[/FONT][FONT=&quot]The main portion of any dish should be from local or regional ingredients grown or harvested in Florida, Georgia, or Alabama. For example, zucchini bread should be made with zucchini that's as local as possible. But the flour, eggs, and other ingredients could be from anywhere, though if you can get them local--or organic?all the better.


Any meat should be from organic or free-range animals. And yes, harvested can include wild plants, nuts, fish or game.


[/FONT][FONT=&quot]Here is a list of what's available in town:[/FONT][FONT=&quot][/FONT][FONT=&quot] For The Health of It in Blue Mountain Beach 267-0558

zucchini
yellow squash
green beans
green peppers
mixed sprouts
alfalpha sprouts
arugula
collard greens
mustard greens
strawberries
tangerines
kale

WOW!!!
[/FONT][FONT=&quot]and don't forget about...[/FONT][FONT=&quot]

[/FONT][FONT=&quot]Seaside Farmer's Market!![/FONT][FONT=&quot]

This (AND EVERY) Saturday[/FONT][FONT=&quot]
[/FONT] [FONT=&quot] 9am - 1:00pm
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• [FONT=&quot]chicken and duck eggs [/FONT]
• [FONT=&quot]whole chicken[/FONT]
• [FONT=&quot]beef[/FONT]
• [FONT=&quot]milk, cream, butter[/FONT]
• [FONT=&quot]honey [/FONT]
• [FONT=&quot]LOTS and LOTS of produce!!![/FONT]

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[FONT=&quot]Feel free to forward this to anyone who has the passion for eating locally...
And as always, we encourage you to walk, ride your bike, or carpool to the potluck![/FONT][FONT=&quot][/FONT]
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If anyone has any questions, needs directions, or just wants to say hello please don't hesitate to call![/FONT][FONT=&quot]Looking forward to it!

Thanks,

Christin



850-419-3910

cmg977@gmail.com[/FONT]

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[scooterbug44]

Bump!

Great selection of independent films!